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Publications [#324108] of Matthias Kehrig

Journal Articles

  1. Ilut, C; Kehrig, M; Schneider, M, Slow to hire, quick to fire: Employment dynamics with asymmetric responses to news, Journal of Political Economy, vol. 126 no. 5 (October, 2018), pp. 2011-2071 [doi]
    (last updated on 2024/03/28)

    Abstract:
    Concave hiring rules imply that firms respond more to bad shocks than to good shocks. They provide a unified explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro-and microdata. In particular, they generate countercyclical movement in both aggregate conditional “macro” volatility and cross-sectional “micro” volatility, as well as negative skewness in the cross section and in the time series at different levels of aggregation. Concave establishment-level responses of employment growth to total factor productivity shocks estimated from census data induce significant skewness, movements in volatility, and amplification of bad aggregate shocks.


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